shadowiness

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Noun
  • When the transcript is the record, ideas can propagate on merit, and people can no longer hide behind vagueness.
    Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 25 May 2026
  • On the other hand, the statement is emblematic of the uninteresting vagueness of Spider-Noir‘s world-building.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026
Noun
  • As Raul grapples with telling the story of Elsa’s life, he’s confronted by the murkiness of borrowing from real people for the purposes of fiction.
    Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 May 2026
  • After Daniel Jones tore his ACL late last season, the quarterback position has some murkiness for the Colts entering 2026.
    Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 May 2026
Noun
  • Good Agents, Bad Agents And Staying Accountable ​This leads to an uncomfortable ambiguity that traditional know your customer (KYC) and know your business (KYB) processes simply are not cut out for.
    Andrew Sever, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
  • Unlike Carol, there’s no ambiguity over whether Pamela is a proper monster — but adding nuance to women who come off like villains is work Cardellini knows well.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 28 May 2026
Noun
  • Virginie Efira and Tao Okamoto let a day’s stroll linger into profundity, the twilight dimming and human connection brewing in all its possibilities.
    Joshua Rothkopf, Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2026
  • Love Island had shifted what had previously been an unshakable self-identification and stumbled into comic profundity.
    Anna Peele, Vulture, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • What The Dark Wizard does differently is grapple with Potter’s impenetrability without being able to resolve it, and consider how that indecision might change our perceptions of his life and his May 2015 death while BASE jumping in Yosemite.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 May 2026
  • Byrne is generous with his time and attention, but there’s also a Warholian air of mystery about him—a gentle impenetrability, a feeling of separateness.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 10 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • After more than a week huddled together in darkness, the five men trapped in a Laos cave received a message of hope when they were discovered by rescuers on Wednesday.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • That’s the recipe of avoiding the darkness in him.
    Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 29 May 2026
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“Shadowiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/shadowiness. Accessed 5 Jun. 2026.

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